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Sarah Scott awarded President's Dissertation Fellowship

May 9, 2014
Sarah Scott, a PhD student in Health Psychology, has been awarded the President's Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2014-2015. Sarah received this fellowship for her dissertation work entitled "Resilience against depression over time in diverse youth: A multigroup latent curve modeling...

Psychology Faculty receive Senate Awards

May 9, 2014
Two Psychology faculty members were selected as recipients of the 2013-2014 Senate Awards. Professor Linda Cameron was awarded the Senate Award for Distinguished Scholarly Public Service. This award recognizes a faculty member who has energetically and creatively applied his or her professional...

Quant PhD students win UC Fellowships

May 2, 2014
UC Merced PhD students, Patrice Cobb and Nicole Zelinksy, have been awarded fellowships by the University of California Educational Evaluation Center. The Center's Research on Evaluation Student Paper Competition invited UC graduate students to submit research proposals for studies in the field...

Eric Walle featured in Merced Sun Star

April 18, 2014
Research by developmental psychology Professor Eric Walle was recently featured in a story by the Merced Sun Star. The piece focuses on his recent finding that language development is linked to the onset of walking in infancy. You can read the story here.

ECEC, Faculty Members Host Early Education Conference

February 7, 2014
On Jan. 25, UC Merced hosted a half-day conference for local early childhood educators entitled “Child Triumphs and Troubles: Language and Learning in the Early Years.”  Organized collaboratively by the Early Childhood Education Center and the Gateway Association for the Education...

Kristina Allen is now the APSSC Representative for UC Merced

January 30, 2014
Kristina Allen has recently been appointed the UC Merced campus representative to the Association for Psychological Sciences' Student Caucus (APSSC).

Congratulations to Anna Epperson!

December 4, 2013
Anna Epperson just had her first paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. Her paper is titled "Associations Among Body Size, Body Image Perceptions and Weight Loss Attempts Among African American, Latino and White Youth: A Test of a Mediational Model."

Chris Fradkin receives research award

November 18, 2013
Chris Fradkin, a graduate student in health psychology, has been awarded the Psychological Sciences award for Excellence in Research. Congratulations, Chris!

Jeffrey Gilger featured in the Merced Sun Star

October 30, 2013
Professor Jeff Gilger's research and expertise on dyslexia was featured in an article in the Merced Sun-Star.

Will Shadish is President-Elect of Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology

October 25, 2013
Professor Will Shadish has been chosen president-elect of the prestigious Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, a by-invitation, highly selective scientific organization. He joins a long list of previous presidents who have made seminal contributions to quantitative psychology and...

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